Sisters Lily and Iris are the most colourful characters in the poor village of Skinton. The secret of their plumpness during post war rationing is a full freezer. When it breaks down the repairman arouses fatal passions.

WPC Barbara Greaves is bored with law-abiding village life so CID's Neil Brown transforms her into Whoopi Stone, madame and gangster, to go undercover to trap drug barons. But how far is she prepared to go?